Oh là là ! The past week was full of special activities and school events. TERRY FOX RUN Throughout their study of Terry Fox during their weekly BUG period with Mme Babin and Mme Thorsen, the students demonstrated an appreciation for helping others and working as a community. On Thursday, the school raised well over $1000 through the Toonies for Terry campaign. The students joined all other classes at Ecole Agnes Davidson in a walk in the coulees for the cause. At the end of our walk, the students were provided a healthy snack of bananas and oranges by parent volunteers. A big merci to these parent volunteers!

PHONOLOGIEThe students are continuing to develop phonological awareness everyday. We study of the letters Ll and Vv this week. Students must be able to recognize the sound in many words and in different syllables of a word (ex. beginning, middle, end sound in the word).

I hope to go a bit faster on some on the letter names and sounds. To support your child's mastery of these sounds, please use the school’s Francisation alphabet sound resources to help strengthen your child’s phonological awareness.

On the first page of the letter (forward and backward arrows on the bottom left hand corner of the document viewer), have your child read along with the voice file to read and recognize capital (majuscule) and lower case (minuscule) letters. On the second and third pages, read along with syllables. The fourth page contains vocabulary containing that sound/letter. The fifth came contains sentences, where you can read and also pay attention to capitalization and periods.

We have studied all letters up to Mm in class, but please go ahead and explore working on all letters and sounds at home with this wonderful resource!

LECTUREThe students reached 35 in stamina reading this week - c’est incroyable!!! Are these kids even real????? What are you feeding them???? It is so great to see the sense of urgency and excitement demonstrated by the children.

We read a book about things that are the colour blue to demonstrate reading comprehension. Students had to draw the appropriate illustration blue using the information provided in the corresponding sentence. These books were added to the students' personal book bags for them to enjoy, and the sentences will be sent home for you to enjoy as a family later on in the year.

ÉCRITUREThe students studied feminine and masculine articles as we wrote sentences using “le” and “la”. We also saw how words starting with a vowel cannot be preceded by le or la, and are instead preceded by l’. Students needed to select appropriate nouns depending on the article provided on the worksheet. These sentences will be sent home for you to enjoy as home reading in the next month.

Reading and writing go hand in hand. Next week, your child will receive a page of sentences and a page of sounds to practice with you. Please help reinforce this by asking your child whether a noun is feminine or masculine as you read their daily agenda message together. Here is a little summary of articles to help you during reading:

Moreover, students continue to practice writing simple, affirmative sentences using the subjet + verbe structure. Next week, we will continue to practice this structure while paying attention to capitalization and punctuation. MATHÉMATIQUESThe students focused on recognizing, reproducing, extending, creating and explaining patterns of two elements this week. Students used manipulatives to demonstrate their understanding of this concept. Next week, students will complete a formal booklet that will further demonstrate their abilities in two element patterning.

The students are gaining strength in number sense each day! We continue to strive for mastery of number words and digits 1 to 20. This week, we continued developing number sense in relation to tens (les dizaines) and ones (les unités) during calendar time. We will continue using blocks to help us count the days of school with groups of ten and ones. Next week, we will complete a focused study of numbers 8, 9 and 10 in numeracy and continue to strive for master of number ordering. We are just about to start working on 2D shape words and properties in depth. The students will work in a cross-curricular fashion to mix French Language Arts and Mathematics as they use number and shape words in writing activities over the next month.

SCIENCES + ARTS We finished our primary colour and line art project this past Thursday. Wow! What a beautiful job the students did. It is clear that we have many artists in our midst! It is fun to see how each and every project is unique, yet they all come together to create a sense of continuity when presented together. The art will be displayed in the hallway in the coming week - come by and take a peak!

HYGIÈNEKeeping in line with our school's new citizenship program, this week we will begin formally studying the Leader in Me program. The students have become familiar with some of the language of this program, and have evaluated how our classroom rules fit into these habits (ex. I am proactive and put first things first when I do my best and choose to do my best rather than rush through work to get to free time). The students been provided many opportunities to see themselves as leaders in the classroom, the school and the world. We will see a more formal overview of the Seven habits of Highly Effective People, and briefly introduce the first habit, Be Proactive. Please see the school website or newsletter for more information of the Leader in Me program. WANTED: PLAYDOUGH We require different colours of playdough for science experiments and other learning activities. We will accept any colours or quantities. Please send the playdough donations to school in a large ziploc bag. Please note that the Ziploc bag will not be returned. Merci bien!

REMINDER: FAMILY PROJECT DUE THIS FRIDAYPlease have your child return their creation about the book study, "La semaine des canards" to school as soon as possible. Please remember that your child should have colored the illustrated book, cut out and glued on the appropriate illustrations on the second book, and created a visual representation of his or her favourite day to be a duck as per the information provided in these texts. You may refer to the weekly guidelines or contact me for more information.

I hope to complete all family project evaluations in the next two weeks and subsequently provide you with a copy of your child's feedback. Please place any accompanying materials in the ziploc bag provided. I am so excited to see what you have come up with as a family. Merci!

REMINDER: HOME READING DUOTANGSPlease have your child return their home reading duotangs every Wednesday. Thank you for your assistance!

This week, you will receive an October calendar outlining the upcoming month. As always, a digital copy of this information will be uploaded the website. Please let me know if you have any questions!